Is Yamaha not as popular as Onkyo and D&M? I am surprised this thread only has 8 pages. Official threads for Onkyo and D&M models have hundreds of pages.

Anyway, today I ordered the A830 from accessories4less. I got tired of the network issues with my Marantz 6008 and Denon E300, and it seems like Yamaha has less problems than D&M.
I hope I made the right decision. It should get here by Friday.

I noticed the same thing re. number of posts here. Have been considering the $499 830 deal so decided to browse through here.

Have a look at EventGhost; I've used that to automate my media center in the past. One of the things I did was send IR commands to my Z-5500 to toggle on and off when the computer resumed or went to standby, so this is definitely possible. There may even be a plugin available for Yamaha receivers so you don't even have to roll your own http calls.

Thanks, I'll have a look, although on second thought I'm not sure that's what I need. What I need is, when I start my media player (MPC-HC) or audio player (winamp) the receiver should turn on. (like making handshake in the manual) I'm not sure if it's possible.

So, for now that cron script is working well. A modified version is below.

I mainly sit before my laptop working, reading and listening music (in 7ch mode; don't throw stones at me! ), or watching something using straight through or drama mode (latter for 2ch sources to be able to use the DPLII decoder).
Setup: laptop -> (hdmi) receiver -> (hdmi) TV
So, when I was there I created some small batch scripts for my Windows 8.1, and here I post these, maybe somebody else is using it the same way like I do. No need to push the buttons on the remote several times, just double click the desired setup.
I put out a shortcuts onto Desktop to easily access them. (I have debugged the xml commands on the web-setup page in Chrome.)
You need wget.exe for this to work from here "users.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/" , and just copy into c:\windows directory.
As you will see below, we can fire up multiple "commands" in 1 command. We only have to separate the turnOn command, since the unit needs couple of seconds to be turned on.

Is Yamaha not as popular as Onkyo and D&M? I am surprised this thread only has 8 pages. Official threads for Onkyo and D&M models have hundreds of pages.

Anyway, today I ordered the A830 from accessories4less. I got tired of the network issues with my Marantz 6008 and Denon E300, and it seems like Yamaha has less problems than D&M.
I hope I made the right decision. It should get here by Friday.

I noticed the same thing re. number of posts here. Have been considering the $499 830 deal so decided to browse through here.

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IMHO, the reason for the "lack of posts" or seemingly not as popular as...is that these are very good, fair priced units that have minimal issues. That's a selling point in my mind. My 830 hums along handling whatever I throw at it. I'm very happy!

I recently bought RX-A830. I am having hard time understanding how I could use the dialoque lift feature. I currently have 3.0 setup and I am going to upgrade to 5.0 within couple of days. At the moment when I try to use dialoque lift the option only shows "---" and cant be adjusted. Do I need to have more speakers or what I am missing here?

I recently bought RX-A830. I am having hard time understanding how I could use the dialoque lift feature. I currently have 3.0 setup and I am going to upgrade to 5.0 within couple of days. At the moment when I try to use dialoque lift the option only shows "---" and cant be adjusted. Do I need to have more speakers or what I am missing here?

I do it via the Yamaha AV Control smartphone app. It works really well and easy to use. Not sure how to do it using the remote control though.